Non tea party Americans may marvel that any group can think of itself as egalitarian when it's main political goals are to cut off government assistance to the poorest and reduce taxes for the richest. But American populism has almost always concentrated it's anger against the educated rather than the wealthy. So much so that you night describe contemporary American pilot is as a class struggle between those with more education than money against those with more money than education: Jon Stewart's America versus Bill O'Reilly's, Barack Obama's versus Sarah Palin.
David Frum
Post tea party nation
The New York Times Magazine
Nov 14, 2010